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Animating is hard.

Impressions:

The start of this episode just made me sad. I think it was Shirou trying to be badass with the goofy scarf wrapped around his mouth, the only thing they bothered to animate, followed by a very long very slow pan across the corner of a wall followed by the director just giving up entirely and going for “two people standing 15 feet apart, staring at each other like statues” and “shots of their profiles from 6 inches away” interspersed with shots of a street light. Then one animator said “Maybe this is dull. Why don’t we have the light flicker?” And they threw him a party and all went home at 9:30 am to do blow off a Filipino prostitute’s ass.

The rest of the episode didn’t fare much better. Christ. Even Caster showing up and displaying how awesome she was, the sole moment of supposed tension in the entire damn episode, was accomplished by… putting down a bunch of strings that kept people from moving. That was already the status quo, guys. Going from they’re not moving because we can’t be assed to animate anything to they’re not moving because we bothered to draw a few strings is not the tense scene you seem to think it is. And then… she touched him! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!